GLOSSOGOBIUS 165 



lateral, 1.9 to 1.5 in snout and 4.8 to 6 times in head; the inter- 

 orbital space equal to or 0.25 less than the diameter of an eye; 

 the mouth strongly oblique, with slightly projecting lower jaw, 

 and with the posterior end of maxillary reaching to front margin 

 of pupil; the teeth in four rows in each jaw, the fourth row 

 larger than the second and third, the outer row larger and 

 stronger than the fourth; the outer row fixed, the others all 

 depressible; the caudal peduncle rather wide, its least depth 

 twice or nearly twice in its length; the head naked except the 

 region behind eyes and a few rows of small scales on upper 

 part of opercle; the scales between dorsal fin and occiput much 

 smaller than those elsewhere; the longest rays of second dorsal 

 and anal equal, their length equal to depth of body; the rather 

 pointed caudal fin f of head in length. 



The color in life a sort of golden brown, with a longitudinal 

 series of five or six large dark spots along each side, the last 

 one at base of caudal, and a series of five dark crossbars over 

 back; the first dorsal has a broad blackish crossband across its 

 middle, the base and upper part clear, or it may be crossbarred 

 with heavy spots ; the second dorsal strongly crossbarred by four 

 or five rows of black spots forming wavy lines; the caudal 

 heavily crossbarred by many alternate wavy black and yellow 

 bands on the upper two-thirds or three-fourths; the remaining 

 lower part uniform dusky ; the anal and ventrals dusky to black, 

 the pectorals dusky. 



In alcohol the color is dusky yellowish with markings as in 

 life; the cheeks are marked by four or five longitudinal dark 

 brown bands, the body color appearing between as narrow pale 

 stripes; the pectoral is almost colorless, with a short blackish 

 bar on the upper part of its base; the ventral is blackish. 



I have examined twenty-four specimens, from 45 to 90 milli- 

 meters in length, collected by me in Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur 

 Province. This species has previously been known only from 

 the specimens collected by Jagor in 1859 in Bicol River, Cama- 

 rines Sur Province, and Kalabos brook near Daraga, Albay. It 

 is apparently confined to that part of Luzon. 



I refer here also four badly preserved specimens from Lake 

 Bato, Camarines Sur Province, collected by Alejo Arce, and five 

 excellent specimens from the same locality, collected by G. A. 

 Lopez. 



Since writing the above I have studied a large series from 

 Lake Buhi, ranging in length from 22 to 105 millimeters. Most 

 of them are sufficiently different from G. giurus to be given 



